Abstract: Techniques for typographic electronic pagination are disclosed. In one embodiment, the techniques may be realized as an apparatus for typographic electronic pagination. In one implementation of the apparatus, the apparatus comprises at least one non-transitory processor readable storage medium with instructions stored on the at least one medium. The instructions are configured to be readable by at least one non-transitory processor and cause the at least one processor to operate. The processor operates so as to receive a plurality of articles, generate an index page based on relative visual weightings of the plurality of articles and a size of a canvas adapted to contain the index page, and generate a page layout for the plurality of articles based on page layout weightings and the size of canvas.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for performing card authentication of a bank card. The method comprises reading a first liquid encoded number (LENcard) from a bank card; transmitting the LENcard to an authorisation server, the authorisation server interfaced to an authorisation database; retrieving at least a further liquid encoded number (LENcurrent) from the authorisation database; and comparing LENcard and LENcurrent. If the LENcard is not equal to the LENcurrent then if the bank card is a new card, the method includes processing the bank card as a new card otherwise processing the bank card as a fraudulent card. If the LENcard equals the LENcurrent, then the method includes generating a further liquid encoded number (LENnew); writing the LENnew to the bank card in place of the LENcard; and writing the LENnew to the authorisation database in place of the LENcurrent.